CFR Calls Obama’s Orwellian UN Address “Impressive”
Bush-era State Department bureaucrat Stewart M. Patrick proclaimed President Obama's Orwellian address to the United Nations General Assembly “one of the most impressive...
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Don’t Look Now, But 1,600 (x2) U.S. “Boots on the Ground” in Iraq
Americans have repeatedly been reassured that the counterterrorism offensive (or whatever it is that's not a war) against the Islamic State of Iraq...
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Obama Bombs ISIS in Syria; U.S. Officials Tout Regime Change
After having already handed Libya to al-Qaeda-linked jihadists with help from NATO and the United Nations, the Obama administration this week began bombing...
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House Puts Hold on War Powers Resolutions Until After Elections
In a clearly politically calculated move, the House of Representatives has reportedly placed an amendment into the jobs package that will ban War...
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Senate Votes to Arm Syrian Rebels; Paul Rips War Enablers
The sound and fury in Thursday's Senate debate signified grave doubts, but it ended in a lopsided 78-22 vote in favor of President...
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Obama’s “Moderate Rebels” Sign Deal With ISIS, Report Says
The supposed “moderate” rebels fighting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad — self-styled jihadists whom the Obama administration and Congress plan to supply with even...
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Amid Doubt, House Votes to Arm and Train Syrian Rebels
In a bipartisan display of reluctant cooperation, the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday voted 273 to 156 to approve President Obama's plan to...
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Finding Syrian Moderates: “Who’s on First, What’s on Second…”
Members of Congress might feel a bit like comic Lou Costello in the famous "Who's on First" skit as they try to determine...
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Defense Officials Present Dim Picture of War Against ISIS
Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee on September 16, the nation’s two top defense officials, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chairman of...
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American Sentenced to Six Years Hard Labor in N. Korea
On September 14, North Korea’s Supreme Court convicted U.S. citizen Matthew Miller of committing “hostile acts” and sentenced him to six years of...
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Obama Issues “No Ground Troops” Flip-Flop
The Obama administration has completed its second flip-flop on his Syrian war policy in just over a month with the admission by Chairman...
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Kerry Said It’s Not a War Before He Said It Is
President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the Congress are reluctant to say we're at war. ...
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Follow the Money: War Hawks and the Military Industrial Complex
There is an unholy alliance between pro-war pundits and the producers of war materiel. ...
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To Battle ISIS Jihadists, Obama Will Arm More Jihadists in Syria
Even though the Obama administration’s previous unconstitutional support for jihadists and rebels in Syria empowered the “Islamic State” to begin with, the president...
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Sotloff’s Killers Tipped Off by Moderate Rebels, Family Spokesman Says
The killers of Steven Sotloff were tipped off about the journalist's location by "so-called moderate" rebels in Syria for a cash reward, a...
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